Most Distant Rotating Disk Galaxy Challenges Secular Models

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Astronomers have determined that a distant galaxy discovered three years ago is rotating, making it the most distant rotating disk galaxy yet observed.1 This disk galaxy has been designated DLA0817g, but has been nicknamed the “Wolfe Disk,” after the late astronomer Arthur M. Wolfe. Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a collection of sixty-six radio telescopes in northern Chile, to veri… More…

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